The prosecution in the case, which begins jury selection today, really wants to make this trial about that. But it's not. It's not about steroids either, actually. It's a perjury case, to determine whether he was lying when he said he didn't take illegal things, which might not have been illegal at the time.

The case, which has already played out in the court of public opinion for years, fed by witch hunts and show hearings and a series of seemingly coordinated leaks to The New York Times, finally gets down to business on Monday. But not without some pre-trial attempts to show that Bonds is an asshole, and to weed out any jurors who agree.